Surprisingly, little support is expressed by 18- to 24-year-olds for the Occupy Wall Street protests, at 19 percent. (A plurality of 42 percent are unsure.)

It is very hip, even on the Youth Left, to mock OWS.

Young millennials today are dramatically less politically engaged and less enthusiastic. Just 64 percent are registered to vote, compared to 73 percent four years ago. The number who say they are definitely voting in the presidential election has dropped significantly from 64 percent to 47 percent. And a majority of those registered or unregistered say that either their vote would not matter or they are unsure.

it is a boring election, but it's only May. though I was in France recently & a friend asked about Mitt Romney & how the USA could consider electing such a fascist religious nutjob, & I found myself defending Romney as being just a bit more fascist than Sarko, & really only a very mild Mormon & thus not very nutso, & really he was a lot more mild & "centrist" than the GOP could have settled upon...I convinced my friend & found myself rather startled that I didn't care much anymore about who wins this election, except for the aid & comfort a Romney victory will give racists.

The irony being that our socialist Keynesian overlords, Messrs Bush and Obama have left us with an economy far less dire than the austerity budgets have left those in Spain, Greece, France and Britain.

I think a few of us were aware very early on how boring (a vulnerable) Obama vs. (any kind of) Romney would be, so, Yippie-style, we tried to levitate Rick Perry or Herman Cain or Newt Gingrich into the lead. It just didn't take.

As CAP’s Melissa Boteach, Lawrence Korb and Max Hoffman noted in a report last month, with the cuts they are calling for, House Republicans will be protecting “largely useless” weapons systems, preserving funding for unnecessary programs like the V-22 Osprey, and adding two nuclear submarines to the U.S. military’s already “overwhelming preponderance of sea power.”

At the same time, the GOP plan would, for example, cut food stamps for 2 million people and reduce the same benefits for 44 million others. Nearly 300,000 school children would lose free school meals and hundreds of thousands could lose their Medicaid or CHIP coverage.

As far as I can tell, there are Democrats and Republicans over here, and there are the mysterious entities (aliens? ghost pirates?) on the other side who maintain, and occasionally improve the welfare state.

I have no idea who these mysterious entities that create and protect the policy I like that somehow exists. And I have no idea how the ratio of Democrats to Republicans might affect this.

All I know is that Democrats and Republicans are indistinguishable. This is proven by NAFTA.

Romney has a lot of work ahead. I don't see how he lines up with, much less defeats, Obama in November. Anything's possible, but Romney doesn't strike me as a come-from-behind maverick. Then again, that's my personal opinion. I'll leave it to the states to decide.